Description: Toshikazu Kawaguchi 2 Books Collection SetNew Paperback - January 2022 This Set includes: 1. Before The Coffee Gets Cold2. Tales from the Cafe DESCRIPTION: 1. Before The Coffee Gets ColdWhat would you change if you could go back in time?In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a café which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experience: the chance to travel back in time.In Before the Coffee Gets Cold, we meet four visitors, each of whom is hoping to make use of the café?s time-travelling offer, in order to: confront the man who left them, receive a letter from their husband whose memory has been taken by early onset Alzheimer's, to see their sister one last time, and to meet the daughter they never got the chance to know.But the journey into the past does not come without risks: customers must sit in a particular seat, they cannot leave the café, and finally, they must return to the present before the coffee gets cold . . . Toshikazu Kawaguchi?s beautiful, moving story ? translated from Japanese by Geoffrey Trousselot ? explores the age-old question: what would you change if you could travel back in time? More importantly, who would you want to meet, maybe for one last time? 2. Tales from the CafeIn a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a café which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experience: the chance to travel back in time . . .From the author of Before the Coffee Gets Cold comes Tales from the Cafe, a story of four new customers each of whom is hoping to take advantage of Cafe Funiculi Funicula's time-travelling offer.Among some faces that will be familiar to readers of Toshikazu Kawaguchi's previous novel, we will be introduced to:The man who goes back to see his best friend who died 22 years agoThe son who was unable to attend his own mother’s funeralThe man who travelled to see the girl who he could not marryThe old detective who never gave his wife that gift . . .This beautiful, simple tale tells the story of people who must face up to their past, in order to move on with their lives. Kawaguchi once again invites the reader to ask themselves: what would you change if you could travel back in time? ***************************************************************************
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Book Title: Before The Coffee Gets Cold, Tales from the Cafe
Narrative Type: Fiction
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Topic: Books, Collectibles
Before The Coffee Gets Cold - Intl ISBN: 9781529029581
Format: Paperback
Type: Novel
Original Language: English
Author: Toshikazu Kawaguchi
Book Series: Toshikazu Kawaguchi 2 Books Collection Set
Publication Year: 2022
Language: English
Intended Audience: Ages 9-12, Young Adults, Adults
Publisher: Picador
Edition: Collector's Edition, First Edition, Special Edition
Tales from the Cafe - Intl ISBN: 9781529050868
Product-Type: 2 PAPERBACK BOOKS COLLECTION SET
Packaging: Shrinkwrapped Books - Box Packed
Before The Coffee Gets Cold: 9781335430991
Tales from the Cafe: 9781529050868